Good grief!! On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:57:41 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip> >> Unlike the '*' wildcard, the '?' is a "one place at a time" wildcard. >> If you have two files -- BEO1.123 and BEO15.123, BEO?.123 will refer >> only to the first one. I honestly cannot remember if BEO??.123 would >> refer to both files, but I think not.
>> It's been a looooooooooooooong time since I had to use that trick. I'd >> honestly forgotten about it until I saw the subject line show up on the >> list. <G> I imagine the the use of '?' could come in handy in some >> complex batch files ... I hope I remember it should I need to write some >> in the future. <G> > Good tactics L.D., but they didn't work for me. One of the problems > with this troublesome file was that when I did "dir" in the directory > that it was in, it wouldn't even be listed! Even when I did > "xdir +h" it would not be listed! I could see the file and its > "apparent" name by using a DOS file viewer utility. If you "couldn't see the file," then the first thing to do is use attrib to remove hidden and read only attributes. Then & only then can you delete the file. These days you can do that using DOS. But anyone who uses a REALLY old DOS and wants to be able to change attributes on both files and 'directories' drop me a line and I'll send you a couple of my "mad hacker of the 80s" programs that will do the job for you. :> I still use those programs, via batch files; have never used the DOS attrib program except to test it once. <BG> l.d. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
